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- In C. S. Lewis's Christian novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Aslan refers to himself as "the great Bridge-Builder", a close translation of Pontifex Maximus.
- In the dispensationalist fiction series Left Behind, the character Cardinal Peter Mathews is named Pontifex Maximus of the "Enigma Babylon One World Faith", established by Nicolae Carpathia, Global Community Supreme Potentate and Antichrist.
- In Robert Silverberg's Majipoor series, the Pontifex is an important authority figure that represents the religious bureaucracy in the system of shared powers that control the fictional planet.
- In the X Universe's game series, the leader of the Paranid alien race is also referred to as "Pontifex Maximus". In the game series, the Paranid are notorious for their extremist religious beliefs.
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